1. FREE as in BEER!!! Manage Your Packages with NuGet Rob Reynolds

2. Who am I? Rob Reynolds C# MVP Technical Lead for Heartland Crop Insurance Active in OSS – Chuck Norris Framework – NuGet core team member – Various contributions to other projects ferventcoder – twitter, gmail, you name it ferventcoder.com / Devlicio.us Recently given a new nickname: Inspector Gadget

3. Topics NuGet Secret Tool

4. What is NuGet? Free, Open Source developer focused package management system for.NET. What exactly does that mean? More importantly, why should you care?

5. What do you do now? Open a browser Find site Downloads Find the one you want Download it Unblock / Unzip Put it in project references folder Dependency collisions!

6. What’s wrong with that? It’s slow Too many decisions Dependencies may be hard to manage Upgrade blocks

7. What could you be doing? someCommand packageName Brings library and dependencies Resolves dependency issues Gives you a starting setup – Configuration set up – Source code – etc

8. Why is this good? Speed Decision tree is reduced Immediate feedback Upgrading becomes easier Getting 3 rd party software libraries together for use no longer takes hours. Read that again. A free tool. Saves you hours.

9. NuGet – Package Management for.NET

10. That’s it! We’re done here. Now you can go forth and be productive Thanks for coming Any questions?

11. You’re not leaving…?!

12. Oh you want to see the tool? Demos?

13. We can do Demos

14. Add Library Package Reference Demo

15. PowerShell – In my Visual Studio? Demo

16. Yet another tool – NuGet.exe Demo

17. NuGet Package Explorer Demo

18. Demo : Run Package Server

19. Demo : Creating Packages

20. Alternative package creation method NuGet pack *.csproj –Symbols Not getting into it today

21. So we’re good now…?

22. Did I promise a secret tool for uber productivity?

23. I suppose we can talk about that one, too

24. A Secret Weapon – Be Uber Familiar w/Debian? apt-get? apt-get – application packaging tool – Automates retrieval, configuration, and installation of software Windows hasn’t really had anything take off …

25. Chocolatey - A not so Secret Weapon Chocolatey NuGet – local machine repository – Think ruby gems on steroids – Think apt-get for windows What is it? – PowerShell instructions for “retrieval, configuration, and installation of software”

26. What does it mean? Chocolatey can download a native installer (msi or install.exe) Then execute it silently Then perform additional setup It’s PowerShell, you can do nearly anything

27. Statlight

28. Git

29. ILMerge notSilent

30. Demo

31. Questions? ferventcoder – twitter, gmail, etc NuGet – http://nuget.codeplex.com Chocolatey - http://nuget.org/List/Packages/chocolatey